Janet has been an APR volunteer for six years, where you can find her behind the desk at the shelter on Mondays and Fridays, showing dogs at PetSmart, or any one of APR’s weekend events. Her favorite thing to do is hob-nob with the canines. She and her husband have two dogs, one of which
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By Allie Katz “I thought about it for a long time,” Olivia Cantville told me when we met at the APR shelter on Sunday afternoon while her parents were helping her deliver her donation, “and I thought it would be the best thing to do.” When I asked her if she had saved the money
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His name was Pixie but that’s because he was part of an all-female litter, or so the APR team thought. Pixie, Dixie and Trixie came from a cat colony in Oakland Park. It is a colony that some of our volunteers have watched over on a regular basis for nearly 20 years. They feed those
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By Allie Katz The kitties of APR now have a Kitty Ferris Wheel thanks to the generosity of Joyce Porter, one of our many appreciated donors. Joyce bought the Ferris wheel for her eight (count ‘em, eight) cats. She told me about how excited and full of expectation she was when it arrived
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By Allie Katz I personally think Sigmund Freud was wrong about a lot of things, but he hit the nail smack on the head when he said, “We are never so hopelessly unhappy as when we lose love.” This applies to both the loss of loved ones and beloved pets. I lost my best
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